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No, but the amount of bandwidth available to/from the USA to VM customers via peering/transit/etc. are entirely within their control.

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tonights speed for me

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/95.png

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Tonights speed in Hertfordshire :)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/94.png

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Yep, peak time again...

[https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/84.png

Thought VM might have fixed it early when it'd been fast for the last week or so. But no, everyone was just out rolling around in the snow and not using their connections.

Re: 50mb Broadband - Post Your Speed & Vote
 

I was trying to answer the guy's issue in easy to understand terms. If I'd wanted to batter his head with discussion of transit and peering I would have.

I'd prefer not to get to the stage of having to post in unnecessarily gratuitous and quite obvious detail to avoid a pedant picking holes.

Re: 50mb Broadband - Post Your Speed & Vote
 

Not picking holes. Simply stating I disagree that VM has no control over speeds outside their network. VM choose exactly how much speed and bandwidth they want to provide (and pay for) to offshore locations and therefore are in complete control of how much the end user gets. They don't operate the offshore network directly but are still in control of which ones they use, how much capacity they buy, and what level of speed (i.e. SLA) gets guaranteed.

If they choose providers that cannot control or guarantee their interconnect speeds then that was their choice. A choice they had complete control in making.

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You've never worked with transit and peering providers, or for that matter large networks have you?

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Large? No, not really. Technically though we are a transit provider where I work.

Small providers do have complete control over who they buy their transit from, as long as said providers have a POP nearby. Same for end users. Big ISPs should already have their own backbone connected to all major POPs so they don't even have this to worry about.

Seeing as VM has a national network, purchasing power, and far more money, I don't see anything that'd get in the way of them buying however much transit bandwidth they need (except maybe for corporate politics, which I gladly do not have the luxury to deal with).

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/12/43.png

Woot. I hope this sticks.

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So you don't want the upload upgrade then or 100Mb?:D:D:D

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I resent the implication that VM aren't capable of delivering high speeds and stable performance.:rolleyes:

[Edit]
It looks like I've been resegmented. So in theory they didn't actually add any extra capacity, just rebalanced the existing capacity. Still, it's an improvement nonetheless.

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:erm: From your upload speed I guess you aren't on the Coventry 200Mb trial, so would I be right in suggesting that you are on a VM business service? Or, perhaps this is a fluke.